Amy Mackinnon

@ak_mack · Washington D.C. · joined 10 Oct 2012

US-Europe Foreign Affairs Correspondent @FT| Formerly @foreignpolicy @politico | Stray Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿| Signal: amackinnon.44

18 306Followers

5 094Following

1 035Posts total

1.8MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views2 584this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %14.12%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.65%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 584	2 751	0.94×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	14.12%	9.00%	1.57×
Engagement rate	0.65%	1.65%	0.39×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

125.7K9 Jan

1.6K18 Jul

1.6M28 Jul

2.6K29 Jul

6.4K17 Aug

65318 Aug

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.43%9 Jan

0.73%18 Jul

0.16%28 Jul

0.93%29 Jul

0.65%17 Aug

0.46%18 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes71.5%2 535 in total

Reposts10.2%362 in total

Replies6.5%229 in total

Quotes5.5%196 in total

Bookmarks6.3%224 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Scoop: The official overseeing Trump's contentious White House ballroom project held quiet talks with Kremlin officials on a recent visit to Russia, as the US seeks to break the diplomatic deadlock over the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/B9LM5cy3L6 653 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 18 Aug 2026 Why Maga loves to hate Europe. My piece kicking off our series on the complicated relationship between the Trump administration and the European right. https://t.co/2JiNmnkcHo 6.4K views · 27 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 17 Aug 2026 Petition to replace the Dulles people movers with these https://t.co/RtmWcSTpNT 2.6K views · 20 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 29 Jul 2026 NEW: Say goodbye to the people movers at Dulles airport. President Trump is set to unveil a $22.5 billion renovation of Dulles as soon as tomorrow that will scrap the mobile lounges, arguably the most unpopular part of the airport, and significantly expand the airports 1.6M views · 2K likes · 263 reposts · 208 replies 28 Jul 2026 More on the Trump administration’s funding of Maga-aligned groups in Europe & beyond: - $2 million to combat “censorship” in the EU - $5 million for Free Speech Union International -$5 million for “civilizational alliance” in Europe https://t.co/AESlvfU62i 1.6K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 18 Jul 2026 Checking off a major item on my professional bucket list today, with my first ever Lunch with the FT. Before the holidays, I grabbed lunch with former CIA Director Bill Burns to talk about Venezuela, what the US gets wrong about regime change — and why Putin badly misjudged 125.7K views · 438 likes · 83 reposts · 16 replies 09 Jan 2026